“Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
“The world is the way it is now because of five thousand years of ingrained structures of power based on darker times… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Though thou shouldst be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“While Socrates and Plato were searching for answers to these important questions over two thousand years ago, it’s a strange situation we… — Mark Dice Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“For this innermost reason you should perform all of your deeds without whys and wherefores. I say in truth, as long as… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“When we were only several hundred-thousand years old, we built stone circles, water clocks. Later, someone forged an iron spring, set clockwork… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Once again, the point of this discussion is not to accuse Christians of endorsing torture and persecution. Of course most devout Christians… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“For several thousand years man has been in contact with animals whose character and habits have been deformed by domestication. He has… — Hans Brick Copy Share Image
“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing less than the understanding of God’s earth was in flux. For centuries, the church had censored scientific ideas that were… — Joshua Wolf Shenk Copy Share Image
“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“and the number is six hundred and sixty-six,” that is, six times a hundred, six times ten, and six units. [He gives… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“In the context of ten thousand years, I thought, what did Filmer and his sins matter? Yet all we had was here… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
“Pendants have for two thousand years reiterated the notion that women have a more lively spirit, men more solidity; that women have… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see,… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever… — John Green Copy Share Image
After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
In order to be in control, you have to have a definite plan for at least a reasonable period of time. So… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
“You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and theree;s some Kevan is you, else you would not wear that cloak... but… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged… — Grabe Copy Share Image
“They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was… — Caroline Fraser Copy Share Image
I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda) You can't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image